Discuss the issue of identity in A man For All Seasons

From one perspective, the individual represents the assumed collective in the power of the person of King Henry VIII. Henry truly believes that he is the embodiment of all knowledge, wisdom and power in the country. To a point, of course, he is right. But even to that point, the knowledge, wisdom and power exerted has nothing to do with him as an individual; the minute he dies all that power is immediately transferred to someone else. Thomas More does not possess the same knowledge, wisdom and power of the King, but it is real and not illusory like Henry’s. Thomas More eventually loses the power even to control his own existence, but ultimately as an individual expression of authority, he is revealed to be at the very least on the same level as Henry VIII. After all, even today one cannot fully understand Henry without a knowledge of More